When you start using the STL and its algorithms in your code, it’s a bit of a change of habits. And then after a while you get used to it. Then it becomes a second nature. And then even your dreams become organized into beautifully structured ranges that fly in and out of well-oiled algorithms. […]
Not all the code which is out there is as expressive as what we’d like. And working with bad code can be hard on motivation sometimes. In this week’s video, you’ll see 3 ways to put bad code to use, and learn from it how to write great code! Don’t want to miss out ? […]
So it’s been a year! It’s been a year since I decided to take up the project of running a blog. A year during which I met an incredible number of incredible people, where I wrote like a madman, where I discovered a part of myself that could actually hold that virtual pen and carry […]
One way to write better code is… to read lots of great code! But where to find good code? In this week’s video, I detail how this technique works and several places easy to access to find good C++ to take inspiration of. And yes, you are going to see videos popping up on Fluent […]
We’ve seen how strong types helped clarifying function interfaces by being explicit about what input parameters the function expected. Now let’s examine how strong types help clarifying functions that return several outputs. We’ll start by describing the various ways to return several outputs from a function in C++, and then see how strong types offer an […]
Strong types are a way to put names over data in code in order to clarify your intentions, and the more I work on it the more I realize how deep a topic that is. So far we’ve seen the following subjects in our series on strong types: Strongly typed constructors Strong types for strong interfaces […]
Guest writer Tim Scott talks to us about how to make unit tests express the intentions of a piece of code. Tim is a software developer and tester passionate about software quality and automation. You can find him online on DeveloperAutomation.com, his blog about increasing quality and developer efficiency through automation, or on his Twitter or […]
Tonight is Halloween! The day of the dead, the day where people go around dressed up as ghosts, vampires and other zombies to celebrate and actually… have fun! Yeah, Halloween is that too. I’ve looked it up a bit and found out that there are some customs of Halloween that don’t really relate to the […]
One thing that dramatically improves the expressiveness of a piece of code is respecting its levels of abstractions. It sometimes involves massive refactorings, but in many cases it just comes down to choosing good names in your code. Picking a name that is consistent with the abstraction level of the surrounding code can make a […]
The Expressive C++17 coding challenge has come to an end after being open for three weeks, for submissions of the clearest code using C++17. It was a joint challenge between Bartek’s coding blog and Fluent C++, and its point was to learn collectively how to use C++17 to write clearer code. We’ll see the winner and […]
